Open Day of ATLAS Higgs to bb / Flavor Tagging Workshop

Tuesday, 5 September 2017 - 08:00
Stony Brook University (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
5 Sept 2017
AM
08:00
Registration (in Simon's Center, close to Main Auditorium) - Tracy Hillenbrand Gloria Clivilles-Ramos (until 09:00) (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
09:00
First morning session: Heavy Flavor - George Sterman (SUNY) Richard Hawkings (CERN) (until 10:10) (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
09:00 Welcome by Stony Brook Physics Department Chair - Prof. Axel Drees   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
09:10 Welcome by the Simon's Center Director - Luis Alvarez-Gaume (CERN)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
09:15 Welcome by the YITP Director - George Sterman (SUNY)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
09:20 Practical information about the workshop - John David Hobbs (Stony brook Universty (US)) Dmitry Tsybyshev (Stony brook Universty (US)) Giacinto Piacquadio (State University of New York (US))   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
09:30 Introduction to b-tagging algorithms (including X to bb tagging and MC dependence) - Andrew Stephen Chisholm (CERN)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Higgs searches to bb: results and outlook - Patrick Meade (Stony Brook University) Timothy Paul Scanlon (University of London (GB)) (until 12:15) (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
10:30 H to bb results - Nicolas Morange (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
11:00 Q&A session   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
11:15 Next steps in H to bb beyond inclusive signal strength - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
PM
12:15 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Next steps in H to bb and MC modeling - Sara Lynn Dawson (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)) Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago (US)) (until 15:20) (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
13:30 Open theory issues in H to bb analyses: what generators we use, how we estimate the uncertainties, where are our present limitations - Valerio Dao (Stony Brook University)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
13:50 Towards an NLO shower and more realistic parton shower uncertainties - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
14:15 Where should we look for BSM in H to bb and H to cc - Carlos E.M. Wagner (University of Chicago)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
15:10 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Theory modeling of H to bb backgrounds and HF processes - Stefan Hoeche (SLAC) Paolo Francavilla (LPNHE and Institute Lagrange de Paris - ILP (FR)) (until 17:00) (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
15:30 Experience with modelling of processes with heavy flavor in ATLAS analyses (including calibrations) - What are the key issues - Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham (GB))   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
15:50 Brief overview and theory progress on Z+bb and W+bb(j) @ NLO, including matching to parton showers - Laura Reina (Florida State University (US))   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
16:25 WbWb production with POWHEG BOX RES - Tomas Jezo (University of Zurich)   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)
17:30 Public Event (organized by SCGP - Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, Sasha Abanov) - Michelangelo Mangano (CERN) Joseph David Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Young-Kee Kim (University of Chicago (US))   (SCGP Della Pietra Auditorium)